further education
Adult vocational learning
Further education is formal learning pursued after secondary school but typically outside a university setting.
In British usage especially, it refers to vocational training, technical courses, and professional qualifications at colleges and institutes: She enrolled in further education to become a dental hygienist.
The term overlaps with but is distinct from higher education, which specifically means university-level study.
- polytechnicApplied sciences institution
- technical institutesSchools for applied skills
- lifelong learningOngoing self-improvement through study
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- evening classesInstruction after sundown
retraining · career change · skills gap · mature students · apprenticeship programs · day release · secondary school · vocational training · academy · college · distance learning · trade schools · degree · university · community colleges · certificate · lifelong · professional development
- British educationgrammar schools, comprehensive schools, state schools, private schools, boarding schools
- vocational trainingapprenticeship, apprenticeships, trade school, trade schools, vocational school
- schoolsprimary school, school, college, academy, high school
further educationprimary education
Initial years of schooling
elementary education · early childhood education · kindergarten · compulsory education · basic education
further educationself-education
Independent pursuit of knowledge
autodidacticism · on-the-job training · life experience · self-study · unschooling
further, education, educate, educated, educator, educational, educating, educates, educators